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  2. THE NEW FOREST.

    The population of the village in and about the Forest amounts to between six and seven thousand, who besides the ordinary village trades ...

    Article : 845 words
  3. WONDERLAND.

    There are two things in this world that border on the almost impossible. One is to make the Irish understand the English; the other is to make the English ...

    Article : 778 words
  4. ESSLIHGEN'S CHILDREN.

    Margaret M'Millan writes in the "Daily News" of 5th September:—Their home is in a valley surrounded by vine-clad hills, hills eloquent of patient human ...

    Article : 1,246 words
  5. THE SUBSTITUTE.

    "Johann, my coat—the one that I wore last." "Damn you ! Bring it !" " Yes, sir. But—" ...

    Article : 1,048 words
  6. MR. G. B. SHAW'S ADVENTURE

    Mr. George Bernard Shaw has told a "Daily Mail" correspondent the story of his adventure on the Merionethshire Hills last Sunday (8th September.) On ...

    Article : 402 words
  7. FIRST AID THAT KILLS.

    Those good Samaritans who come to the assistance of people injured in the streets often do an immensity of harm. Invariably when a person faints, ...

    Article : 319 words
  8. WOMEN AND BRAINS.

    I heard a man say the other day, "Femininity with brains is adorable," and it set me thinking as to haw far we women have travelled from the old ...

    Article : 572 words
  9. ON CORNS.

    Corns are of two kinds—vegetable and animal. Vegetable corn grows in rows, and animal corn grows on toes. There are several kinds of corn; there is the ...

    Article : 355 words
  10. A TAUS OF TWO AFFINITIES.

    One Ferdy Earle he wed a girl, And troth! a happy man was he, Until he met fair Juilette, His "fore-ordained affinity" ...

    Article : 170 words
  11. AMERICAN CHILDREN.

    Dr. Robert E. Park gives in the "Sunday Magazine" of New York some striking facts about children in the United States. For instance, about 5600 ...

    Article : 391 words
  12. AWAKENING OF CHINA.

    In a report to the Washington Bureau of Manufactures, Mr. Consul W. T. Gracey, of Tsingiau, gives some interesting details of the commercial ...

    Article : 365 words
  13. FRENCH MAYOR'S VISIT.

    At 9 o'clock yesterday morning (5th September) the streets of Ramsgate were alive with people. The occasion was the visit, at the invitation of the Mayor and ...

    Article : 309 words
  14. A "SOFT ANSWER."

    A clergyman writes:—"I was writing by my study window, and a little child was busying himself by throwing beans at the window. Losing all patience, I ...

    Article : 180 words
  15. SUNK IN A QUAGMIRE.

    An Irish sportsman named Findlater has had a narrow escape from being swallowed up in a quagmire near Holy-wood, County Down. ...

    Article : 312 words
  16. NIAGARA FALLS.

    Niagara Falls were gloriously illuminated on the night of Wednesday, 4th September, and the amazing spectacle of the dark, tumbling, thundering ...

    Article : 208 words
  17. A RECORD IN SKYSCRAPERS.

    The Singer building now in course of construction in Broadway, New York, has already exceeded, the height of the Washington Monument, which rises ...

    Article : 142 words
  18. ELIE RUBIES.

    The pleasant little Fifeshire town of Elle provides; according to the "West-minster Gazette," not only golf and tenns for its visitors, but it offers, in ...

    Article : 145 words
  19. THE ONE-LEGGED TRIUMPH.

    The correspondent of the London "Daily News" wrote from Paris on 6th September:— The President of the "Society of ...

    Article : 88 words
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